CNN, the network that helped bring you the fear-mongering which prolonged the worst parts of the last pandemic, would like you to know that they’d like a sequel and would you please stop “calm-mongering” about hantavirus?

In a ludicrous story about the Andes strain of the disease — the first (and hopefully only) outbreak of which appeared on a cruise ship called theMV Hondius, which docked in the Canary Islands and transferred patients back to their country of origin — CNN noted that people were being too goshdarnnormalabout things while noting that “still-fresh memories of the loss and disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic” might be affecting our response.

Yes, whatever may have given you that idea, CNN?

If you’re at high risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19, it’s time to dust off those N95 masks.https://t.co/6qpqTSGoYMpic.twitter.com/LpKe7LFdPP

That call for masking was in 2023, for those of you who didn’t check the date.

Anyhow,CNNbills itself as “The Most Trusted Name in News,” but its tagline really should be Rahm Emanuel’s timeless motto: “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.” So, even though there are three people dead out of 11 confirmed or suspected cases, according to World Health Organizationdataas of Wednesday, that didn’t mean it wasn’t time for a piece with a title like “Hantavirus is not Covid-19, but ‘calm-mongering’ risks triggering post-Covid anxiety.”

It’s the “calm-mongering” thatposes the biggest riskto these people, with CNN averring that “some health experts say that at points, the messaging has been overly confident and too willing to dismiss the possibility of a threat.”

Ah, yes: The return of “some health experts”! I missed you, fellas. Can you get the Faucinator out of retirement to do his“I am the science!”bit?

One of these CNN-consulted experts said that health officials should be absolutely clear that this isn’t COVID-19 while treating it like it might be kinda a little sorta if you squint like COVID-19, maybe possibly:

Dr. Peter Sandman, who was a professor at Rutgers University for almost two decades and is one of the founding fathers of the field of crisis and risk communication, said that to be effective now, health officials first need to earn the right to explain why this hantavirus outbreak isn’t Covid.

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